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Leinfter diltiift, is not favourable to the extent or value of 

 that in the county of Tyrone. 



The rivers of ihis county are very numerous, fo that it is 

 well fupplied witli water for bleaching, &c. Tlie principal 

 river is the Mourne, which pafTcs through the centre of the 

 county from fouth to north. It rifes in the mountains near 

 Clogher, and receives feveral ftreams before it comes to 

 Omagh, where it is joined by the Cameron from the fouth ; 

 and a few miles lower, by the Po from the weft. At 

 Newtown-Stewart the united ftreams of the Moyle, and 

 another river from the mountains between Tyrone and 

 Derry ; and at Ardftraw the Derg, which flows from 

 Lough Derg, in the county of Donegal, add their ftores. 

 Thence it runs to the town of Strabane, below which it 

 meets the river Fin, from the county of Donegal ; and they 

 proceed together, under the name of Foyle, to the fea, 

 being navigable for large boats. The river Blackwater, 

 which is alio navigable for about ten miles of its courfe, is 

 of great fervice to the eaftern part of tlie county. The 

 Balhnderry paftes by Cookftown, and afterwards becomes 

 the northern boundary, until it flows into Lough Neagh. 

 The other ftreams are inconfiderable, and there are no lakes 

 which deferve notice. The towns of this county are not 

 large. Omagh is the county-town, probably on account of 

 its central fituation ; for it is inferior to Dungannon or Stra- 

 bane. Dungannon was the principal refidence of the 

 O'Neils, when chieftains of Ulfter. Thefe towns, and 

 Cookftown, May, &c. are mentioned under their refpeftive 

 names. The country and inhabitants near Newtown-Stewart 

 were much improved by the exertions of lord Mountjoy, 

 who was killed at the battle of Rofs in 1798, fighting 

 ^gainft the rebels, at the head of his regiment. His ufeful 

 and benevolent plans have not, however, been neglefted. 

 About Fintona good flooring and ridge tiles are made, and 

 a great variety of crockery ware for country ufe. Near 

 Coal-Ifland is a pottery, fuppofed to be the beft in Ireland 

 for rough crockery ware, fire-bricks, and tiles for malt- 

 kilns, which are of as good a quality as any imported. The 

 fame clay made into Irnall oblong pieces, and dried in the 

 fun, is ufed for cleaning of leather, &c. and is fent for this 

 pUrpofe to very diftant places. 



Having thus given an account of the prefent ftate of Ty- 

 rone, with refpeft to its produftions and manufaftures ; it 

 may be added, that when O'Neil, the defcendant of the 

 kings of Ulfter, was compelled to fubmit to queen Eliza- 

 beth, he was created earl of Tyrone ; and when his rebellion, 

 in the reign of James I., occafioned the forfeiture of his pof- 

 fefTions, this was one of the oimties planted, that is, allotted 

 to fettlers, chiefly from Scotland, whofe defcendants are at 

 prefent the principal landed proprietors. — M'Evoy's Sur- 

 vey of Tyrone. Beaufort's Memoir of Map of Ireland, &c. 



Tyrone, a townftiip of Pcnnfylvania, in the county 

 of Adams, containing 648 inhabitants.— Alfo, a townfliip 

 of Pennfylvania, in the county of Cumberland, containing 



2604 inhabitants Alfo, a townfhip of Pennfylvania, ia 



Huntingdon county, containing 753 inhabitants — Alfo, a 

 townftiip of Pennfylvania, in Fayette county, containing 

 989 inhabitants. _ 



TYROOT, acircarof Hindooftan, in the fubah of Ba- 

 har, bounded on the north by Morung, on the eaft by Pur- 

 neah, on the fouth by Boglipour, on the fouth-weft by Hajy- 

 pour, and on the weft by Bettiah. Durbungah is the capital. 



TYROSIS, -n/potr.--, formed of Ti/fo^ cheefe, in Medicine, 

 a coagulating or curdling of milk in the ftomach, after the 

 manner of cheefe. 



TYRRELL, James, in Biography, a political writer and 

 hifiorian,was thefon of fir Timothy Tyrrell, knt., of Shotover, 

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nrtr Oxford, by Elizabeth, the only daughter of archbiftiop 

 Uftier, born at London in 1642, and admitted, in 1657, a 

 gentleman-commoner of Queen's college, Oxford. De- 

 voting himfelf to the ftudy of the law at the Inner Temple, 

 he was called in 1665 to the bar. But declining the prac- 

 tice of his profeflion, he refided at Oakley, in Biickingham- 

 ftiire, and ftudied thehiftory and Conftitution of his country, 

 of which he entertained more liberal fentiments than thofe 

 with which he commenced his refearches. In 168 1 he pub- 

 liftied an anfwer to fir Robert Filmer's patriarchal fcheme, 

 under the title of " Patriarcha non monarcha ; or. The Pa- 

 triarch unmonarched." Having refufed to allift in the abo- 

 lition of the penal laws, andtheteft againft popery, he was 

 ftruck out of the commiflion of the peace by James II. 

 As a zealous friend to the Revolution, he vindicated king 

 William's right to the crown in " Fourteen Political Dia- 

 logues," printed from 1692 to 1695 ; which were afterwards 

 coUefted into one volume folio, writh the title of " Bibliotheca 

 Pohtica, &c." in which all the chief arguments, both for and 

 againft the late revolution, are impartially reprefented and 

 confidered. He alfo compofed an abridgment of biftiop 

 Cumberland's work " De Legibus Naturs," 1692, 8vo. 

 of which work a fecond edition, correfted and enlarged, was 

 printed in 1701. But his principal performance was " The 

 General Hiftory of England, both Ecclefiaftical and Civil, 

 from the earlieft Accounts of Time," concluding with the 

 reign of Richard II., and comprifed in 5 vols. fol. 1700 — 

 1704. The pohtical pnrpofe of this work feems to have 

 been to confute the leading doftrines of Dr. Brady, who 

 maintained that all the liberties and privileges of the people 

 of England were conceffions from the kings, and derived 

 from the crown ; and that the reprefentation of the commons, 

 as now exifting, was not introduced before the 49th of 

 Henry III. Thefe points are ftill controverted, and ferve 

 to diftinguifh two parties in the ftate. Mr. Tyrrell died in 

 1718, in his 76th year. Biog. Brit. 



Tyrrel, in Geography, a maritime county of North Ca- 

 rolina. It contains about 3364 inhabitants. 



Tyrrel 'j Bay, a bay on the fouth coaft of St. Vincent; 

 2 miles E. of Kingftown. 



Tyrrel'/ Pa/s. See Terril'j Pafs. 



TYRRHENIA, in yincient Geography, that part of 

 Italy which is now called Tufcany; but more extenfive to- 

 wards the north and fouth-eaft. This country has changed 

 both its name and its inhabitants. 



The Umbrians were expelled by the Polafgi, and thefe by 

 the Lydians, under the conduft of Tyrrhenus, the fon of 

 the king of Lydia, whence the name Tyrrhenia. As the 

 Tyrrhenians were a religious people, and offered many facri- 

 fices, the Greeks called them Thufis, or Thufci, denoting 

 faerificers, from Sui, to facrijtce. See Etruria and 

 Tuscany. 



TYRRHENUS Sinus, a gulf of Italy, on the coaft of 

 Etruria. According to Dionyfius of fla^icarnaflus, this 

 gulf was denominated " Aufonius Sinus." 



TYRT^US, in Biography, a Greek poet, is fuppofed 

 to have been a native of Miletus, and to have refided at 

 Athens, as a poet, mufician, and fchool-mafter. Somewhat 

 deformed in body, he poffeffed a manly and elevated foul. 

 In a conteft between the Lacedxmonians and Meftenians, 

 the former, having experienced fonie ill fucccfs, are faid to 

 have confulted the oracle of Delphi, B.C. 623, and to have 

 been direded to feek a general at Athens. The Athenians, 

 as fomc fay in derifion, fent Tyrtasus, who, by the recital 

 of poems in praife of valour and patriotifm, animated the 

 Spartans, fo that they became victorious, and reduced the 

 Meffenians to fubjeaion. He is faid to have alfo gi ven them 



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